Here’s a Great Escape – Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space

March 12, 2012

Dreamy, otherworldly and transcendent, “Suprasensorial” at the Hirshhorn through May 13 is a satisfying optical and intellectual meal. The intoxicating centerpiece is Carlos Cruz-Diez’s aptly titled Chromosaturation, three contiguous white spaces, each illuminated by a set of fluorescent lights of a single color: green, magenta and blue (at least, thats’s the literal description). The illumination is really a saturation that alternately creates sharp distinctions and blurs borders. It will you giddy, buoyant and delighted.

The Light and Space movement is often considered as emerging in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s. Almost a decade earlier, Latin American artists were creating environments of light and color that challenged traditional standards of art as a static experience.

this was a wonderful exhibition, and you are right to focus on ‘Chromosaturation’, though the entire show was mind and body bending, truly ‘Suprasensorial’.
i would like to link to this post…to whom are the photos credited?
thanks!

what a wonderful exhibition, and you were right to focus on ‘Chromosaturation’, though the entire show was truly mind and sense-bending, truly ‘Suprasensorial’.
i would like to link to this post, to whom go the photo credits?
thanks,
the viewer